Persistent pooper

[BusterBunny]

Please help,

We have had Buster for about 2 weeks nows and he is a real character. He is very good at using his litterboxes in and out of his cage for peeing (one or 2 mistakes but he is easily forgiven because he is just so cute!) but he is a persistent pooper! I have tried to pick him up and put him in his litterbox OUTSIDE his cage when he is doing it, but he is like a dispenser and they literally pop out of him with no warning! He HATES being picked up so I battle to get him in his box because he struggles so much and that just breaks my heart. We sit with him for hours watching him and trying to train him but he still poops freely. I’m worried that we are giving him too much love and now he thinks he is the boss of the house because we hate to tell him off and dont have an affective way of moving him away from the poop zone!

Any advice would be much appreciated, we just want to be a happy little bunny family.

Natalie

[Monkeybun]

If you’ve only had him for 2 weeks, its likely he’s still making it “his” territory. He’s marking everything his by leaving territorial poopies everywhere. Thats what my Monkey did when she came home with us, still does when we introduce her to a new part of the house. Eventually he should slow down.

[BinkyBunny]

Welcome BusterBunny!

So these are just the scattered poops – not the piled poops? If so, this is territorial and should decrease like Monkey said, however, it’s best to keep bad habits from setting in, and some factors, like age and whether he’s neutered or not may play a big part  in the behavior soo…..

How old is he?

Is he neutered?

Also, you don’t want to give too much freedom too fast – he needs to know HIS territory in relation to the rest of the house otherwise he will claim it all. It’s normal for him to claim any new place and so I’m not sure how much freedom he has had yet, but you should allow it gradually. I always encourage xpens because that way you can slowly allow some freedom during training.

For more littertraining tips – https://binkybunny.com/BUNNYINFO/LitterboxTraining/tabid/62/Default.aspx

[BusterBunny]

Thanks for getting back to me. He is 4 months old and not neutered. We have limited him to just having the kitchen, which is fairly large so gives him plenty of space to binky about like a mad bunny, but from your advice i wont give him more space just yet. It is only the scattered poops, not piled so isnt too much hassle to sweep up (though he has just managed to do 31 poopies in about 10 minutes on a door mat!!!). I just cant think of a way of letting him know that it isnt on other than to continually sweep them into his litter box.
Natalie and Buster x

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